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Scheduling the vote has been complicated by the formation of smaller UAW Local 42 for skilled trades. VW and the UAW disagree on whether the local could also represent production workers.

The National Labor Relations Board granted Volkswagen's request for a stay on a unionization vote at its Chattanooga car plant.

The NLRB ruled Friday without explaining the decision.

United Auto Workers union officials had expected a vote to be scheduled within weeks by the NLRB.

Workers inspect the undercarriage of a new Passat inside the new Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga on May 24, 2011.(Photo: Billy Weeks / AP)

Scheduling the vote has been complicated by the 2015 formation of UAW Local 42, which represents 162 skilled trade workers who voted for unionization. VW and the UAW disagree on whether the local chapter can also represent production workers.

Volkswagen urged the labor board to sort through that question before going ahead with a vote to unionize the entire plant.

NLRB Chairman John Ring and board member Marvin Kaplan agreed to stay the vote, while Lauren McFerran, the board’s sole Democrat, supported a vote and asserted VW “has not established that such extraordinary relief is necessary,” Bloomberg News reported.

"Chattanooga workers wanted the right to vote," UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg said. "They just want to vote and have the same workplace bargaining rights as every VW worker in the world. Why can't they just vote?'’